# Fucking Pringles, you are hereby made a non-entity. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 5, 2006, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-pringles-you-are-hereby-made-a-non-entity/343135 "2006-02-05T20:14:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2006, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-pringles-you-are-hereby-made-a-non-entity/343135/21 "2006-02-05T22:57:41Z")
Huh. And to think that all these years, I just assumed that their potatoes were genetically engineered into that classic Pringles shape. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2006, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-pringles-you-are-hereby-made-a-non-entity/343135/22 "2006-02-05T23:06:18Z")
> [@Q.E.D.](#): > > Don’t mess with the all-powerful Potato Chip Council, I guess. Damn right. I bet some Pringles executive ended up “sleeping with the tubers”. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2006, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-pringles-you-are-hereby-made-a-non-entity/343135/23 "2006-02-05T23:09:40Z")
> [@MonkeyMensch](#): > > \ Now Pringles may taste like pumkin pie, for all I know, but I’ll never find out 'cause I won’t eat the filthy motherf\*\*\*\*\*\*'s. \ HA! I snorted through my nose when I read that. Pringles taste goo-oood. They’re not potato chips, of course, but I get a mean hankering for some cajun pringles once in a while. But no flavourings on a can of 'em? That is just not right. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2006, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-pringles-you-are-hereby-made-a-non-entity/343135/24 "2006-02-06T00:09:07Z")
Pringles are made from the lowest grade of potatoes out there. They’re one grade BELOW the grade that’s used for animal feed. That’s right - they use the potatoes even pigs won’t eat. Mmmmm. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2006, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-pringles-you-are-hereby-made-a-non-entity/343135/25 "2006-02-06T00:50:16Z")
I like this [medical professionals’ mnemonic](http://rad.usuhs.mil/medpix/medpix.html?mode=single&recnum=754&th=-1#top) for Pringle’s Disease (Tuberous Sclerosis): > [@](#): > > **Remember PRINGLE’s Snack can:** > > Mild (inconstant) mental retardation > Facial angiofibroma (Pringle’s Rash) > Seizures (shake the can) > Tubers (hard potatoes ground into potato flour) Naturally. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2006, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-pringles-you-are-hereby-made-a-non-entity/343135/26 "2006-02-06T02:15:06Z")
Aren’t Pringles and Mc donald’s french fries pretty much made the same way? Anyway, BOTH are premo-chemical goodness to me. I’ve only had the problem the OP speaks of once in my life. And THAT was with a bag of “Cool Ranch” Doritos not Pringles. ---
**Author:** ![Lionne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Lionne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lionne)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2006, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-pringles-you-are-hereby-made-a-non-entity/343135/27 "2006-02-06T03:57:31Z")
I enjoy Pringles, on the rare occasion I eat salty stuff. My complaint with them is that the seasoning is on the wrong side of the (flake? crisp?) chip. The way they fit whole into my mouth, the flavours are on the upper side, the one that hits the roof of my mouth. That’s not where my taste buds are! I want the salt to hit my tongue so I can get the quick hit of mouth-watering goodness. To do that, I have to flip the chip over, and now it won’t fit into my mouth without my having to bite on it and potentially causing it to break apart in my hand, thereby creating a mess. Anyone else with me on this? I can’t believe I’ve actually given this much thought to the salty side of a Pringles… ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2006, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-pringles-you-are-hereby-made-a-non-entity/343135/28 "2006-02-06T04:16:53Z")
No, I think it’s just you, **Luna**. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Asylum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/53a042/32.png) [@Asylum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asylum)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2006, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-pringles-you-are-hereby-made-a-non-entity/343135/29 "2006-02-06T04:27:45Z")
> [@LunaV](#): > > Anyone else with me on this? No, but now I’m giving an incredible amount of thought trying to figure out the shape of your mouth. ---
**Author:** ![buckgully](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/eb9ed0/32.png) [@buckgully](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buckgully)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2006, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-pringles-you-are-hereby-made-a-non-entity/343135/30 "2006-02-06T04:43:57Z")
> [@LunaV](#): > > I enjoy Pringles, on the rare occasion I eat salty stuff. My complaint with them is that the seasoning is on the wrong side of the (flake? crisp?) chip. The way they fit whole into my mouth, the flavours are on the upper side, the one that hits the roof of my mouth. So eat them while standing on your head. Jeeze, what’s happened to common sense these days? ---
**Author:** ![Nametag](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nametag/32/406_2.png) [@Nametag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nametag)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2006, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-pringles-you-are-hereby-made-a-non-entity/343135/31 "2006-02-06T05:34:38Z")
> [@LunaV](#): > > ]I can’t believe I’ve actually given this much thought to the salty side of a Pringles… “…the salty side of a Pringles.” There’s an aphorism waiting to happen, there. ---
**Author:** ![zagloba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/977dab/32.png) [@zagloba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zagloba)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2006, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-pringles-you-are-hereby-made-a-non-entity/343135/32 "2006-02-06T05:43:26Z")
dammit, **buckgully** , that’s what I was going to say! ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2006, 6:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-pringles-you-are-hereby-made-a-non-entity/343135/33 "2006-02-06T06:57:23Z")
> [@Revtim](#): > > I _think_ when they first came out they were labled as “potato chips”, but that was a long time ago and I very well could be misremembering. I also kinda remember they changed it because of a legal reason, like maybe the FDA defined or redefined what can be labeled a “potato chip”, or because of being sued by the Potato Chip Counsel, or something. > > Could all be simply an urban legend that festered in my head. It was a real case (in fact, I covered it my Intellectual Property class in law school). [As this 1969 article from Time states,](http://time-proxy.yaga.com/time/archive/preview/0,10987,840268,00.html) the Potato Chip Institute International sued Procter & Gamble and General Mills to enjoin them from advertising their respective Pringles and Chipos snack food products as “potato chips.” As a result, Proctor & Gamble eventually had to label Pringles as “potato crisps” instead. ---
**Author:** ![Amazon\_Floozy\_Goddess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/779978/32.png) [@Amazon\_Floozy\_Goddess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amazon_Floozy_Goddess)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2006, 7:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-pringles-you-are-hereby-made-a-non-entity/343135/34 "2006-02-06T07:21:02Z")
Uggh, I always thought Pringles were vile. Know why? It’s not just the taste. it’s because they’re secretly made by [Nazis!](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v654/MachTurtle/Kampfels.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Telperien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Telperien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperien)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2006, 7:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-pringles-you-are-hereby-made-a-non-entity/343135/35 "2006-02-06T07:34:19Z")
Oddly, the reduced fat sour cream and onion Pringles have a thicker flavor coating than the regular kind. If you bought the reduced fat ones, then I feel stupid in advance. Still, it saddens me that your Pringles were wrong. It’s a symbol of something. \*\*LunaV, \*\* turn the Pringle sideways and the flavor will hit your tongue more properly. ---
**Author:** ![zagloba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/977dab/32.png) [@zagloba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zagloba)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2006, 10:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-pringles-you-are-hereby-made-a-non-entity/343135/36 "2006-02-06T10:48:46Z")
> [@NDP](#): > > It was a real case (in fact, I covered it my Intellectual Property class in law school). [As this 1969 article from Time states,](http://time-proxy.yaga.com/time/archive/preview/0,10987,840268,00.html) the Potato Chip Institute International sued Procter & Gamble and General Mills to enjoin them from advertising their respective Pringles and Chipos snack food products as “potato chips.” As a result, Proctor & Gamble eventually had to label Pringles as “potato crisps” instead. Can they call them “potato crisps” in the UK? ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2006, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-pringles-you-are-hereby-made-a-non-entity/343135/37 "2006-02-06T12:17:33Z")
I would buy unsalted, unflavoured pringles if they made them. I buy salt ‘n’ shake crisps and throw the little blue bag away. I like the flavour of potato. ---
**Author:** ![Capt.Ridley\_s\_Shooting\_Party](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/cc9497/32.png) [@Capt.Ridley\_s\_Shooting\_Party](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capt.Ridley_s_Shooting_Party)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2006, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-pringles-you-are-hereby-made-a-non-entity/343135/38 "2006-02-06T13:28:57Z")
> [@Mangetout](#): > > I would buy unsalted, unflavoured pringles if they made them. I buy salt ‘n’ shake crisps and throw the little blue bag away. I like the flavour of potato. Good. GOD. ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2006, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-pringles-you-are-hereby-made-a-non-entity/343135/39 "2006-02-06T14:34:36Z")
Heh heh. A good friend of mine is the plant manager where they make these. If you want I can forward him an e-mail for you, but I’d have to ask you to be civil about it. ---
**Author:** ![tremorviolet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e47774/32.png) [@tremorviolet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tremorviolet)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2006, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-pringles-you-are-hereby-made-a-non-entity/343135/40 "2006-02-06T14:48:46Z")
> [@Mangetout](#): > > I would buy unsalted, unflavoured pringles if they made them. I buy salt ‘n’ shake crisps and throw the little blue bag away. I like the flavour of potato. Try Baked Lays or Baked Ruffles. They’re a lot more potato-y than regular potato chips and better than Pringles. I like 'em better than regular chips. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-pringles-you-are-hereby-made-a-non-entity/343135.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-pringles-you-are-hereby-made-a-non-entity/343135.md?page=3)